Частина 3 · Внутрішнє споглядання 3

Chapter ThreeExplains the ten Sefirot of equal level. Containing five issues:1. A spiritual acquires its place wherever it passes. Thus, all the lower Sefirot remain in the upper ones, because they passed through them. 2. The ten Sefirot of direct light and the ten Sefirot of reflected light stand in opposite order. 3. The ten Sefirot of reflected light complete each and every Sefira into ten Sefirot. 4. Malchut of reflected light that joined with Keter of direct light acquired the level of Keter. Moreover, since it passed through all the Sefirot, they all acquired the level of Keter. 5. Ten Sefirot emerged lengthwise and ten Sefirot thick-wise.1. We shall now explain the ten Sefirot of equal level: If the level of the coupling reaches up to Keter, then it contains a hundred Sefirot which are Keter through Malchut thick-wise, clothing one over the other. Each of them contains ten Sefirot lengthwise from Keter to Malchut.If the level of the coupling is up to Hochma, they have nine Sefirot thick-wise, each containing nine Sefirot lengthwise. If the level of the coupling is up to Bina, they have eight Sefirot thick-wise, each having eight Sefirot lengthwise, and so on similarly. This applies to each and every coupling by striking of the upper light on the screen. It is brought here in the words of the ARI in Chapter 1.

The reason for it is that wherever it is said that something spiritual moves from one place to another, it does not mean that it left the first place and came to a second place, as in corporeality. It only implies an addition, as it remains entirely in the first place as it was even after it comes to the second place. It turns out that a second place has been added, for there is no absence in the spiritual.Since the Sefira of Keter is the root of the four phases HB TM of direct light, they necessarily pass through it. It follows that they have left their roots in it, for there is no absence in the spiritual. Thus, the Sefira of Keter alone necessarily contains all nine Sefirot KHB, HGT, NHY of direct light.It is the same with the Sefira of Hochma. Bina and TM passed through her and thus set their place in her. Thus, there are eight Sefirot in the Sefira of Hochma, from Hochma to Yesod. It is also the same with Bina, where TM passed through her and set their place in her. Thus Bina has seven Sefirot from Bina to Yesod. It is also the same in HGT NHY in Tifferet and in Malchut.Thus, Keter consists of nine Sefirot KHB HGT NHY of direct light, excluding Malchut, as Malchut has no direct light, but only reflected light. Hochma consists of eight Sefirot; HB HGT NHY of direct light, and Bina consists of seven Sefirot – Bina, HGT NHY of direct light. Hesed consists of six Sefirot HGT NHY of direct light and so on similarly. Each upper Sefira consists of all the lower Sefirot that had passed inside her, as there is no absence in the spiritual (as has already been explained in Part 2, Inner Observation, Chapter 9).

This aforementioned incorporation happened by the force of the ten Sefirot KHB TM of direct light themselves even before the coupling by striking was made on the screen that raises reflected light and clothes them. However, after the coupling by striking was done on the screen in Malchut and the reflected light rose from the screen in Malchut and clothed the Sefirot of direct light, the reflected light equalizes the level of all of them.For example, if the coupling by striking had been on screen of phase four that raises reflected light to Keter, the ten Sefirot of reflected light KHB, HGT, NHYM, emerged here from Malchut and clothed the KHB HGT NHY of direct light. Thus, the ten Sefirot of reflected light are in reverse order from the ten Sefirot of direct light.It is so because the root of the ten Sefirot of direct light is up in Keter and they stand from above downward, from Keter to Yesod. However, the root of the ten Sefirot of reflected light is in Malchut, as they emerged from her, and it is discerned that they stand from below upward. Keter of reflected light, meaning the root, is in Malchut, and Hochma of reflected light is in Yesod of direct light. Bina of reflected light is in Hod of direct light and Hesed of reflected light is in Netzah of direct light. Gevura of reflected light is in Tifferet of direct light and Tifferet of reflected light is in Gevura of direct light. Netzah of reflected light is in Hesed of direct light and Hod of reflected light is in Bina of direct light. Yesod of reflected light is in Hochma of direct light, and Malchut of reflected light is in Keter of direct light. Thus, they stand from below upward beginning in Malchut and ending in Keter.

When the ten Sefirot of reflected light join with the ten Sefirot of direct light, there are ten Sefirot in each of them. Thus, Malchut, which did not have any direct light, gained complete ten Sefirot of reflected light from Keter to Malchut. It is so because they all went through her and remained in her permanently, as there is no absence in the spiritual.Yesod of direct light, which had only one Sefira of direct light, now has nine Sefirot of reflected light, from Hochma to Malchut, as all of them went through him. Hod of direct light, which had only two Sefirot, now acquired eight Sefirot of reflected light from Bina to Malchut. Netzah of direct light, which had three Sefirot, acquired seven Sefirot from Hesed to Malchut.It follows similarly until Hochma of direct light, which had eight Sefirot of direct light HB HGT NHY, now acquired Yesod and Malchut of reflected light and was completed in ten Sefirot. Keter of direct light, having nine Sefirot KHB HGT NHY of direct light, has now acquired Malchut of reflected light and was completed in ten Sefirot.

It turns out that Malchut of reflected light acquired the level of Keter, for she has joined with Keter of direct light. Yesod of reflected light acquired the level of Hochma, for he has joined with Hochma of direct light, and Hod acquired the level of Bina as it joined with Bina.It is therefore considered that Hochma of direct light acquired the level of Keter, since the Malchut of reflected light that has joined with Keter, has become the level of Keter, went through Hochma and was set there. Thus, Hochma too acquired the level of Keter.Similarly, Bina of direct light acquired the level of Keter because Yesod and Malchut of reflected light that became Hochma and Keter went through her and left their roots in her. Similarly, each and every Sefira of direct light acquired the level of Keter, because of Malchut of reflected light that had connected with Keter, necessarily went through them and was set in them. Hence, after the reflected light rose and connected with the direct light, all the Sefirot became equal in their level, up to Keter.

It is considered that that incorporation, where each and every Sefira was incorporated with ten Sefirot by the joining of the direct light with the reflected light, is thick-wise, clothing one another. This is because of their equal level.Thus, in their internality, all ten Sefirot of Keter stand lengthwise from Keter to Malchut. They are clothed thick-wise by ten Sefirot of Hochma that stand lengthwise from Keter to Malchut. Ten Sefirot of Bina clothe them from Keter to Malchut, etc., until the ten Sefirot in Malchut clothe outside all of them from Keter to Malchut.It turns out that a hundred Sefirot must emerge from every coupling by striking of the upper light on the screen of phase four, namely ten Sefirot lengthwise, each of which expands into ten Sefirot thick-wise, and all of them are on an equal level up to Keter.Similarly, from the coupling by striking on the screen of phase three, nine Sefirot of phase three emerge lengthwise and nine Sefirot thick-wise, whose level is equal, up to Hochma. Similarly, in the coupling by striking of phase two, eight Sefirot emerge lengthwise and eight Sefirot thick-wise, whose level is equal, up to Bina, and so on similarly.